(HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Sylvant (siltuximab) to treat patients with multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD), according to a news release issued by the agency today.
Apr 25, 2014
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A virus that is present in most people in a latent state may induce or exacerbate anemia in patients with kidney disease, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ...
Apr 10, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—One of the most common questions asked of doctors who treat genital herpes comes from couples in which one partner is infected with the virus and the other is not. How, they ask, can they have a relationship ...
Mar 26, 2014
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Updated Phase 1/2a results with GEN-003, a vaccine candidate under development by Genocea Biosciences, Inc. for the treatment of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection, showed the experimental vaccine to generate highly ...
Mar 25, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—In a study that has important implications for how the herpes simplex virus causes blindness and fatal brain disease, researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Cincinnati Children's Hospital ...
Mar 21, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Unlike scientists studying the flu virus or HIV, researchers working to develop a vaccine for herpes simplex virus don't yet have a library containing thousands of sequenced viral genomes. Relative to the ...
Feb 17, 2014
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Herpes virus proteins are more 'spaghetti-like' than previously thought, which provides a vital clue in the search for an efficient treatment against a type of herpes which causes a form of cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma.
Feb 13, 2014
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While adults make up 95 percent of those who die annually from vaccine preventable diseases, a new study from the University of Colorado School of Medicine shows their vaccination rates remain stubbornly low, representing ...
Feb 4, 2014
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(HealthDay)—An experimental drug could eventually offer a new treatment option for genital herpes, a common and incurable sexually transmitted infection, researchers report.
Jan 15, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—The herpes virus that produces cold sores during times of stress now has been linked to cognitive impairment throughout life, according to a new University of Michigan study that for the first time shows ...
Dec 6, 2013
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